Cities use LIVES to publish food inspection information about any restaurant listed on Yelp or any website that has restaurant listings
- License: No information
- About the Publisher: Yelp is a multinational company that hosts crowdsourced information about local businesses online. Yelp contributed data and collaborated with municipal bodies in order to develop LIVES
- Updated by Publisher: 2015-08-10
- Level of Use: Chicago and Boston have plans to roll out the standard soon. The city of Ottawa also used the LIVES specification for their Public Health Inspection data
- Open License: Yes
- Transferable to other Jurisdictions: Standards aims to be used widely in cities across America. Can be applied easily across municipalities
- Stakeholder Participation: Partnership between public and private sector
- Consensus-based Governance: Doesn't utilize a mailing list or host an issue tracker so that the public can contribute to the standard's development
- Extensions: No information
- Machine Readable: Standard dictates that data should be stored in tabular form. According to this standard, data is stored in CSVs condensed in a zip file. Business and Inspections CSV files are required. Violations, Feed Info, and Legend CSV files are optional. Business CSV contains information about the business while the Inspections CSV file contains information about inspection history for that establishment. Both required field of business id as unique identifiers
- Human Readable: Standard utilizes human readable identifiers for the data
- Requires Real-Time Data: Standard requires data of health inspection within the inspections file
- Metadata: Feed information' and 'score legend' CSV files act as a form of metadata
Added to directory: 2016-08-01